Improved machine for soldering



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

E. MANLEY, OF MARION, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED IVIACHI NE FOR SOLDERING.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 2L972, dated November 2,1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. MANLEY, of Marion, in the county of IVayne and State ofNew York, have invented a new and usef'ul Improvement in the Method of Soldering Scams and Courses on FlatMetallic Roofs and other Surfaces; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure l is a side elevation of the improved portable apparatus or machine for heating, depositing, a-nd fixing the solder along the intended course. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

Similar letters in the iigures refer to corresponding parts. y

The nature of this invention and improvement consists in erecting and sustaining on a' pair of wheels asuitable furnace, through which is passed an inclined copper bar or solderingtool, having a @wooden handle on one end and being bent downward and rounded at the opposite end, somewhat after the manner of the ends of ordinary soldering-tools, and arranging the curved end and outlet of an inclined adjustable metallic tube, secured to the inclined tool for drawing the apparatus along in such relation to the curved end of the said soldering tool or bar as to enable the solder-scraps and rosin, which is discharged into the tube and conducted byit in direct contact with the heated curved end of the soldering-tool or bar, to be melted, deposited, and iixed along the course over which the apparatus or machine travels.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The furnace A may be made of metal or other suitable material, and of a square, rectangular,

or other desired form, and is covered by a sliding plate, B, at lop, and is perforated with a series of openings in its bottom plate, G, and on top of this perforated plate is arranged a sliding register-plate, D, perforated with openings corresponding in size and form with the openings in the bottom plate, C, and having a handle, D', at one end projecting through an opening in the rear of the funnel in such a manner as to regulate in connection with the top sliding plate B the draft of the furnace.

Below the furnace is attached an ash box and sliding draw E, and to the lower surface of the said ash-boxis secured a transverse shaft, F, which is bent upward at or near right augles beyond the sides ofthe furnace and afterward again extended horizontally to form journals, on which are placed smallwheels G.

To the lower front portion of the furnace is attached an inclined iron tongue, H, having a right-angled handle on its upper end for drawing the apparatus or machine along on its wheels G.

The soldering tool or copper bar I extends in an inclined direction entirely through the lower part of the furnace, and at its upper rear end has an iron rod, on which is affixed a wooden handle, It, and its opposite end is bent downward, and is made slightly tapering on its sides, and rounded in its lower part, so as to resemble the nose of the ordinary soldering-tool.

On the lower surface of the copper soldering tool or bar I, at the part where it passes through the openingin the rear partof the furnace A, is formed a series of notches, into which fits the upper edge ofthe metal at the lower part ofthe said opening in the rear ofthe furnace, and where it is held by a wedge, J, which is inserted between the uppersurface ofthe soldering tool or bar and the edge of the metal atthe top of said opening, and thus prevents the said soldering-tool or bar I descending through the openings in the furnace A after it has been set withits lower or nose end at the proper distance from the furnace to receive the proper degree of hea-t. To the lower part of this soldering-tool or bar I is attached, by a clamp-screw passing through it, a metallic yoke, K, whose prongs extend down the sides of the same, one of them having a piece of metal, K', secured to its end, in which is formed an opening into whichis inserted the lower bent and tapering end of an inclined tube, L, which extends upward beside the inclined tongue to the upper end thereof, to which it is attached by a connecting-plate or bar. To the upper end of this tube L, which is slightly-'flared and enlarged, is hinged the end of a box, M, resembling part of an equilateral triangle in shape, and divided into two conipartmeuts for containing respectively scraps of lead 'and iron, and having the end of a bar, N, hinged to its lower part, which is hinged or otherwise attached at its opposite end to a ring, O, for enabling the box M to be tilted and retained at any desired angle to discharge its contents into the mouth of the tube L.

The operation ot' this machine or apparatus is as follows: The charcoal or other fire is made within the furnace, above and below, and at the sides of the soldering `bar or tool I, and the required degree of heat is given to the latter by increasing or diminishing the draft of the fire through the register-plate D below and the'upper slide, B, above. This produces the required degree ofheat at thelower bent end of the soldering tool or bar I to melt the solder brought in contact with it, and the heat at this lower end may be increased or diminished, as occasion may require, by simply sliding the said tool or bar I upward or downward in the openings in the furnace A to bring its said lower end nearer to or farther from the iire, and again securing it by the notches and key or wedge J below and above. The scraps of solder and rosin are then placed in their respective compartments in the hinged box M, and the machine or apparatus is. .brought in the proper relation to the seam, edge, or other course or line over or against which the solder is to be laid, with the shaft F under the furnace, which is dropped below the axles ot' the wheels Gr across the same. The operator then tilts the hinged box M to the proper angle to cause the necessary relative quantities of rosin and solderingmetal scraps to discharge themselves over its edges into the inclined tube L, which conveys them in direct contact with the heated lower end of the soldering tool or bar I, and causes them to be melted and deposited on the part beneath the same, and simultaneous with the tilting of the hinged box M the machine is drawn forward by the tongue H, which causes the lower end of the tool or bar I to smooth and lay it well in contact with the parts it is intended to cover as the said tool or bar I passes over the same'.

In case it is desired to run the machine near the edge ofthe roof of a house, or at any point beyond which a person cannot reach to draw it, the operator may guide it over such a place by the'handle h on the tool or bar I inthe rear of the furnace A.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Arranging within and in the described rela tion to the furnace A, mounted on wheels G, and constructed as set forth, an inclined cop per bar or solderingtool, I, having notches on its lower surface, and a wedge or key,-J, above for retaining it, with its lower curved and bent end, at the desired distance from the furnace A as to give it the required degree of heat, in combination with the inclined conducting-tube L, and hinged box M and its attachments, divided into two compartments for the solderscraps and rosin, the whole being constructed and operating substantially as bef'ore described.

E. MANLEY.

Witnesses P. WINsLow, H. Ri TABER. 

